January is just gone and I’ve already slipped into the bad habit of busy. Something broken inside of me feels the need to fill the open spaces of my life with more appointments, tasks and responsibilities. The margin that I was forced to recapture last year is very quickly being swallowed up again. This morningContinue reading “Watch this space “
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When fear tries to steal your soul
The news from Paris is rightly frightening and devastating. People intentionally and callously destroyed in the name of a depraved cause. A cause which funds itself from selling children, girls and women into forced ‘marriages’ where they are raped, violated, abused and then often resold. A cause that can justify that, can justify the terrorContinue reading “When fear tries to steal your soul “
The tide is turning …
I bought a different newspaper today for the first time in 16 years!! And your question is – why are you blogging this??? The reason I chose a different paper, with an entirely different political stance than my usual? I was influenced by my 17 year old. No other person or commentator influenced my decisionContinue reading “The tide is turning …”
An Imperfect Mammy
Being a Mammy (must be said in an irish accent!) is hard bloody work. And yes that was half a swear. Bloody only counts as half a swear in our house; it falls into the ‘not a very nice word and please don’t use it in front of the grannies word, but if you needContinue reading “An Imperfect Mammy”
Silencing the shoulds
I’m struggling to silence the shoulds today. It’s an ongoing battle. Apparently responsibility is one of my top 5 strengths – truth is it feels more like a curse. It amplifies the shoulds. The should soundtrack goes like this, you may have a similar one. You should have finished that by now. You should haveContinue reading “Silencing the shoulds”
The stretch in ‘followership’
Stretched. Pulled relentlessly. Growing pains or a pregnancy stretching my soul’s skin and muscles. Almost breaking but stopping short. There is pain and discomfort in the expansion. But I never break. Eventually the increase becomes normal in time for the process to begin again. This is leadership, or maybe better put as ‘followership’. I followContinue reading “The stretch in ‘followership’”
My top 5 Holiday essentials
Confession time. This post has been sitting in my draft folder since mid July. I procrastinate and ruminate too much with this blog. So for any of you lucky enough to be heading on holiday/vacation in September (my personal fav time of year to escape) here’s my top 5. For the rest of us dreamingContinue reading “My top 5 Holiday essentials”
Bookshops
I get overwhelmed in book shops. Too many stories unread. Beautiful books that belong in my home Words to be heard silenced on the shelves I want to read so many of them It’s not the cost of them that’s my barrier It’s the time that I can’t spare.
I dreamt of being … #bringbackourgirls
When I was a teenager many moons ago I dreamt of being a wife and a mum. Unpopular choice in the liberated eighties when young girls like me where encouraged and told that we could have it all; career, friends, car, holidays, husband and children eventually. What I never, ever comprehended to be possible, neverContinue reading “I dreamt of being … #bringbackourgirls”
Stories are everywhere
Who lived here? From first tenant until now. Who were these people? What were their names, their ages? How many slammed this door in anger? Did these bricks absorb the laughter and joy and mix them with the tears and grief of lives lived together? These letters etched tell a story. Unheard now but inscribedContinue reading “Stories are everywhere”
Michelle Scott 